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 some years ago), I spozed, seein' she wuz abundantly able and its bein' so fashionable, that Maggie would have a nurse for her little girl. But the day the child wuz a month old I spent the day with 'em, and Maggie told me she wuzn't goin' to. She looked kinder delicate as she sot there holdin' little Snow, her cheeks wuz about as white as the dress she had on, and I sez, "It is goin' to be quite a care for you, daughter."

"Care!" And as she looked up in my face I wuz most struck with the look in her big eyes, it wuz a look of such tenderness, such rapture, such anxiety, such wonder, and most everything else; I declare for it I never see such a look in my life unless it wuz in the face of the Madonna hangin' right up over her head. Thomas J. bought it and gin it to her a few months before, and it hung right at the foot of her bed. The Virgin mother and her child.

It wuz a beautiful face, Thomas J. thought it favored Maggie, and I don't know but it did, it did jest that minute, anyway, she had the same look in her eyes that Mary had. Well, if you'll believe it right while we wuz talkin' about that baby, Miss Green Smythe come in to see Thomas Jefferson, she is tryin' to git some divorces, and she wants Thomas J. to undertake the job, she is dretful good to Maggie and flatters Thomas Jefferson up, but Thomas J. won't take the case, unless he sees he is on the right side.

Thomas Jefferson Allen has took his Ma's advice; he has never, never took holt of a case that he didn't think honestly and firmly he wuz on the right side on't. He has got the name of bein' a honest lawyer, and they say folks come milds and milds jest to look on him, they consider him such a curosity. That's jest why he